PowerShell + Craigslist for advanced apartment hunting

I was very, very tired of copying/pasting a template saying “Hi I’m Rex and I’m thinking about moving to NYC because of a job offer.. no pets, no kids, no wife, etc” to each place I found appealing. I decided to scrape craigslist and build PowerShell objects that I could sort and use to automagically spam my potential new roommates! 🙂

Here’s the script that’ll do the scraping and build an array of objects:

I really like your idea here and I’m trying to modify it for my own use. I’m having trouble understanding a few of the variables you are creating and getting them to work for me, the $Link,$Email,$Description. Can you explain what you are doing with these?